Nearly a decade after concerns about the conditions in sweatshops surfaced, few companies have revealed any quantitative data about how workers in their global supply chain are treated...Gap's new report provides more hard data about its supply-chain compliance performance...Such frank reporting should be the rule, not the exception...Most frustrating is the deafening silence among Gap's direct competitors. Where is the rest of the apparel industry, as well as the toy and electronics industries?...Surprise: Wal-Mart...last month quietly released a supplier-compliance report on its Web site. It's a rough piece of work, but it's a start. The company says more than 100 factories were terminated in 2004 because of child-labor violations. Another 1,200 facilities were disapproved due to repeated violations. That's more than we have heard from Target, Sears and their budget-minded competitors. [also refers to Nike, JC Penney, Macy's]